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Syllabus for Genetics 342 Spring 2006

Professor: Kenneth G. Wilson -wilsonkg@muoho.edu 367C Tue & Thur 11am-12 others by appointment

Assistant: Shirisha Yelamanchili, yelamas@muohio.edu 356 PSN - Tue&Thur 4-5 pm

Activity
Date
Topic
Reading
Assignments on Blackboard
Lecture 1
10 Jan
chapter 1
Who are you?
Lecture 2
12 Jan
chapter 2
 
Lecture 3
17 Jan

Genetics and Organisms
Enlarge
Gene Material
Watson and Crick use the scientific method for model building


Chapter 10 Where was Christopher Columbus burried?
Lecture 4
19 Jan
Properties DNA
Chromosomes
Chapter 10  
Lecture 5
24 Jan
DNA Replication
Chapter 12  
Lecture 6
26 Jan
Advanced DNA Replication
Chapter 12  
Lecture 7
31 Jan

Nearest Neighbor ala Kornberg
Gene Function - Central Dogma
Enzyme Substrate Complex
Active Site

Chapter 15 DNA sought to ID skeleton at Jamestown
Lecture 8
2 Feb

Neurospora Mutants-Auxotroph
Arginine mutant
Analysis of arg- mutants

Positions of Mutant
Enzyme Pathies
PKU
CF Protein
CF on Chromosome
Recessive or Haplosufficient
Percentages of protein coding genes

Chapter 15  
Lecture 9
7 Feb

Chromosome Separation
Mitosis

Cell Cycle
Cloning Carrots
Dolly

Chapter 2  

9 Feb

Meiosis
How is linear information converted to 3Dimensional
Transcription - Translation - "Code Cracking"

Chapter 2 & 15

 

 
14 Feb

 

Chapter 16  
16 Feb
Examination 1 -- Study Sheet 1   Section A Rm 128 PSN
21 Feb
No Class    
23 Feb

Over view of gene Function,
Regulation of lac Gene Transcription
Eukaryote Transcription

Regulation of Gene Translation

Chapter 13, 14, 16  
28 Feb
Gene Engineering Chapter 18  
2 March
     
7 March
Sequencing DNA
TIGR genomics
Chapter 19  
9 March
Bacterial Genetics
More Bacterial Genetics:
3 alternatives to sex
Chapter 8  
14/18 March
No Class Spring Break    
21 March
/Transposons Chapter 10
Chapter 13
 
23 March
Mendel Two Genes
naming genes
tests for a gene
cis-trans


Chapter 3  
28 March

chromosome linkage
2 point linkage prediction
3 point crosses
linkage predict 2

Summary of Crossing Over
Proof of Crossing Over
Using Linkage Data

Chapter 4 & 7 Applications of DNA technology Genomics
30 March
Examination - Study Sheet 2  
4 April

Applications of DNA technology Genomics

  Study Session - 5-7 pm rm 112 PSN
6 April
test Section A(9:30am) in Room 128 PSN Section B 116 PSN
   
11 April

Sex

   
13 April
Sex Linkage in Fruit Flies
Linkage in Humans -Log Odds

   
18 April
Errors in Mitosis/Meiosis    
20 April

Non linkage exceptions to Mendel's Laws-
Co- Dominance

Multiple Alleles
Lethal genes

   
25 April
Hardy-Weinberg Law
modern
evolutionists
   
27 April

Orthologous vs Paralogous
Paralogs gene trees
nuclear vs unclear
Organell Loss - Organelle alteration

   
28 April

Study Session 4-6 on Friday 116 PSN

   
1 May
Final Section B - 2:45 PM 128 PSN Study sheet  
3May
Study Session 2:45-4:45 pm Wednesday 116 PSN    
5 May
Final Section A - 7:30 AM 128 PSN    

 

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Text: Genetics: A conceptural ApproachBenjamin A Pierce

This is our friend Oliver the parrotlet, a true parrot, the smallest in the world.


 

by Kenneth G. Wilson,
Professor of Botany
Miami University
wilsonkg@muohio.edu